Patents by Inventor Maynard H. Collins

Maynard H. Collins has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4139582
    Abstract: A tubular grid exhaust fume conducting heat exchanger is mounted on a horizontal top face of the fuel mixture manifold of an internal combustion motor, said grid supporting vertically centrally thereon a cylindrical tubular fuel and air mixing housing the upper end of which supports and receives air from an air filter, the lower portion of which housing has a butterfly valve mounted therein and connects downwardly, directly through said heat exchanger with said fuel mixture manifold.A jacketed and exhaust fume warmed fuel reserve canister provides a screen bottomed chamber which encloses a spherical plastic float and admits fuel axially downwardly into said chamber through a flow governing needle valve closed by said float when said float is lifted in said chamber by the fuel rising to its normal operating level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 13, 1979
    Inventor: Maynard H. Collins